Pew is normally the most unbiased and careful pollster. Pew surveyed feelings on AI, comparing AI experts vs general public. They found the experts love AI and the public hates it.
Pew defined experts as people who work in the field or attended conferences about AI. They tried to find more “diverse” or “gendered” experts but missed the most blatant and obvious source of bias. Experts are not scientists or factfinders. Experts are paychecks. An expert finds the facts and holds the opinions that will give him more pay and power. The Pew definition will select only experts who are making money from growing AI, so they will always want the field to grow.
A better source would be programmers and engineers and especially educators who have never worked anywhere near AI and have never attended a conference about AI. Those groups know a lot about AI but aren’t paid to advance it.
If they talked to high school and college teachers outside of tech fields, they’d find a powerfully negative opinion. Teachers are forced to know what AI can do. They’re frustrated and tired from weeding out AI essays and AI research.
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Semi-related: These teachers are discussing a truly weird phenomenon that seems to be common in recent years. When the teacher walks into a classroom to start the hour, she finds the students sitting IN THE DARK, each one totally engulfed in the brightly lighted world of the cellphone. One teacher says the room lights are automatically controlled, and the students defeated the sensor to achieve their desired pitch darkness.
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